About Belfazaar



Greetings Everyone,

My name is Belfazaar Ashantison. I am a primarily sanguinary vampire in the New Orleans area. Having been on the outskirts of the vampiric community since I was 13 years old, helping from the shadows (so to speak), I thought it was finally time to come forward. And at 37 years of age, I have. I have been a member of the Vampire Church for a few years now, and have grown, learned and helped to teach a lot.

I have also founded a Vampiric House, the House of Mystic Echoes, which is primarily concerned with accentuating the magickal side of our beings. Many vampires have taken on alternative and natural belief systems, so we, of the House of Mystic Echoes have sought to build a bridge between the pagan and vampire communities as well as be here to point others to much needed information on REAL vampirism.

Thank you very much

Vitae Dominae

Belfazaar Ashantison



Question: In your personal life, is there certain situations which make your vampirism become more prominent either emotionally or physically? If so, do you feel that others take notice?

Greetings...

Throughout my personal life, I strive to maintain a balance between bestial nature and what is considered 'acceptable' by those around me. Situations that kick my bestial nature into high gear range from, and are not really limited to, my 'Hunger' (and being primarily sanguinary, this can be a very physical thing) to what a person may say, imply or do that I find personally wrong (this is, of course, a personal discernment belonging to each individual and can be simply a misunderstanding of words on my part.

The key to this is that I try, on a daily basis to attempt to keep this at bay. Meditation and self misdirection, is personally what I use. We all know what meditation is, so I won't go into that. Self misdirection, however, may be a new concept for others to admit they do. Like picking up a straw and chewing on it when in the midst of a cigarette craving, I, in the throws of a particularly bad bestial stage, push my mind to think on other things. Like my vampiric family, my work, my home, the House I am part of, my duties with the Vampire Church, and those I care deeply for that have nothing to do with the vampire community as a whole. I concentrate on many things in order to keep me from doing anything rash in public. When this fails, I use a more blatant form of mental misdirection. I go for long walks, alone, trying to reclaim my very delicate balance.

It's not always the easiest of things to do. Maintaining the balance is precious to each of us, and we each have to find the edges of those balances.

I hope this helps give some insight to what I am, what I do and how I react to certain things.

Vitae Dominae,

Belfazaar

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